Dead-belt-shifting device



Sept. 23, 1924. 1,509,423

C. E. GARNER DEAD BELT SHIFTING DEVICE Filed Sent. 14, 1922 INVZTOR ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 23, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CO'RMAN E. GARNER, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

Application filed September 14, 1922.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, a citizen of the United city of Columbus and invented new and use Dead-Belt-Shifting D ing certain line shaft rectly while this without the use similar devices.

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Other advantages will of this specification. In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the device as mounted in place on the line shaft adjacent a live pulley;

Figure 2 is a sectional view, taken on the line 2-2 in Figur Figure 3 is a side el In carrying out the invention a hanger 6 is suspended from the ceiling 15 to one side of the live pulley 2 permanently mounted on the line shaft 3. ries a sleeve 5 being a space 7 inte two.

An idler pulley 4 of equal diameter with the pulley2, is journ on the sleeve 5 at the side of the live pulley 2 and may also be slid sidewise up against that pulley in order that it may be set in motion by such conta others remain running, and

Other advantages of this invention are the saving of power and the saving of oil ordinarily used on idling pulthe cheapness of construction and mounting; the saving of wear on belts when the connected machines are not being used.

disposed toward the pulley 2, and which embraces the line shaft 3 and is of sufficient internal diameter to run entirely free and clear of the line shaf there DEAD-BELT-SHIFTING DEVICE.

CORMAN E. GARNER, States, residing in the State of Ohio, have ful Improvements in evices, of which the shift rod 11.

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pulleys and belts diof countershafts or appear in the course shift pins 17.

shafting or pulleys.

Serial No. 588,171.

the sleeve 5 and inter hanger 6 and the idler 4, the shank of the said shift lever being pivoted at 12 on the A handle 14, hinged at 16 to the ceiling 15 passes down through the hole 13 to a point within reach of the oper- Shift pins 17 are mounted on the shift rod 11, one at each side of the belt 1.

In operation, the belt 1, shown in Figure 1 in solid lines as engagin 2, may be readily shifted shown in Figure 1 in dotte manipulating the handle 1 ley 4. is first forced again 2 to start it revolving ther the belt 1 may be readil one pulley to the other, ment of the handle 14: sponding movement of t in turn forcing the'bel to the other through the pressure The sleeve 5 be made in half sections i and bolted together over th the necessity of taking posed between the Moveof the and idler 4.- may n a known way, e shaft 3, to avoid down any of the While the device is herein described as readily mounted on th evation.

herein This hanger 6 carbe varied in minor d rvenin between the claim:

1. A device of the character comprising, in combination with ably suspended line shaft and live pulley and belt thereon; a hanger; ed on the hanger adjacent and loosely embracing the idler pulley, of equal diamet pulley, freely journaled on aled to rotate freely ct, in the process of at the side of the guide way 19 is extended laterally A squared shift fingers 9 is in the floor, if desired, a-f tice, by merely reversing th mountings above described, a

described a certain of constructing and assembl of my invention, it is u the hanger, same having a allel to the line shaft; a shi mounted in the guide-way; the shift-rod at each side shift lever pivoted to the s interposed mounted from the ceiling, it may be as oor or in a gutter a known prace method and nd while I have specific method ing the elements nderstood same may etails, not departing from the spirit of my invention as defined in the appended claims.

described, the suita sleeve mountthe live pulley line shaft; an er with the live the said sleeve live pulley; a bracket and horizontally from guide-way ftrod slidingly shift fingers on of the belt; a hift rod, same parbetween the pulley hanger andlidler pulley and having a hanfreely journaled on the said sleeveof the dle hole .therethrough; and ahandle hinged hanger, a shift lever pivoted at one end to to the ceiling and passed down through the the said shift rod and having its free end handle hole of the shift lever. resting over the line shaft between the 2. In a device of the kind described, the hanger and the idler pulley, and a handle combination With a line shaft, live pulley hinged at one end and engaging at an interand belt, of a hanger having a sleeve loosely mediate point the said shift lever. embracing the line shaft next the live pulley and a bracket extended laterally; the CORMAN E. GARNER. 10 brackethaving a guide-Way parallelio the Witnesses:

line shaft, .a shift rodin the; guide Way, shift W. C. \VELLURno'rr,

fingers .on the shift rod, an :idler pulley A. HOLLINGSWORTH. 

